I have R5A10 with a PVR-250 MCE (CX23416) and Im trying to update the IVTV drivers (because I get a black screen on 'live tv') without success, after I followed the first post exactly, when I try to 'make' or 'make install' or 'make clean', I get "Makefile:10: /lib/modules/2.6.9-chw-4/build/.config: No such file or directory".
Obviously Im new to Linux, it sounds like its missing '.config', I've checked and its not there in that location.
I did SU, Im using the same file as above (i did "wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/ ... .12.tar.gz"
Does it matter where in the directory tree I download that file to and tar it?? will it put all the all the expanded files into the right locations?

After typing ./configure I get 'no such file or directory', so I guess I need to create the .config file like you said, so then, how do I after scanning the whole system there is no file called configure.

Quote:

run configure script

None of the other IVTV driver tarballs of different versions have .configure either, I suppose its contents is unique to the system, so it has to be made on the system, am I right or wrong?
Im a bit more than a little lost, can somebody please give me a run down of what this file is and how I create it?

I've unpacked and built the ivtv-0.3.3u drivers in /usr/src shipping with R5A16. I had to do that because I am using a non-smp kernel recompile (why? it's a long story, but the smp kernel froze--not even a panic, just froze--when the WiFi driver for a PCI-based rt2500 network card (Foxconn) was installed AND answering ICMP pings. Sigh.).

The shipped, precompiled ivtv binaries did not like the new kernel (duh). 0.3.3u compiled and installed fine, but there is a curious glitch. Watching live TV, I can see the first channel the tuner (PVR350) tunes to, say channel 12 for instance (btw, where can I change that configuration item? I forgot where it was set). All is fine. Changing channels, however, shows the info strip with the current show on the new destination channel, but the tuned channel never changes--it keeps showing the current program that 12 broadcasts, even if according to the info strip I am watching 9. Hmmm.

If I understand this correctly, it appears that video4linux and ivtv both provide tveeprom.ko and tuner.ko but for some reason it is the video4linux variety that should be actually used. OK, that is sufficient for my limited curiosity. (Ah, am I coming too short of the truth from being lazy?)

If tuner.ko does not load, it is not possible to change channel. In fact, neither tuner.ko nor tveeprom.ko do load after recompilation in my case (sigh). Here is why.

In my non-smp kernel recompile, the video4linux *.ko did get recompiled with some bizarre quirk--since at time of loading the module 'version magic' signature does not match that of the new kernel, but still remains the stock precompiled smp variety. This is perplexing, since .config does include support for the video4linux drivers; after #make clean, there are neither .o nor .ko artifacts, but these artifacts do reappear after either #make, #make all, or #make -B

well I haven't read back through the whole thread, but since the title is about ivtv I'm assuming you want a pvr card to work and in that case no you want to move delete etc. the v4l2 tuner and use the ivtv tuner module.

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